Vehicle air comfort system and method
AssigneeThermoTek, Inc.
InventorsTony Quisenberry, Sam K. McSpadden, Christopher Alan Polser, Niran Balachandran
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Abstract
Vehicle air comfort systems and methods. The systems and methods may comprise: (1) a plurality of flow tunnels for passage of a heat-transfer fluid; (2) a thermoelectric cooler in thermal communication with the flow tunnels for thermally conditioning the heat-transfer fluid in the flow tunnels; (3) an air inlet for receiving unconditioned air; (4) a thermal exchange assembly for facilitating thermal exchange between the thermally conditioned heat-transfer fluid and the unconditioned air to result in conditioning of the air; and (5) an air outlet for outputting the conditioned air into the vehicle.
Claims20
A vehicle air comfort system comprising:
- a plurality of flow tunnels for passage of a heat-transfer fluid;
- a thermoelectric cooler in thermal communication with the flow tunnels, wherein the thermoelectric cooler is operable to thermally condition the heat-transfer fluid in the flow tunnels;
- an air inlet for receiving unconditioned air;
- a thermal exchange assembly operable to facilitate thermal exchange between the thermally conditioned heat-transfer fluid and the unconditioned air, wherein the thermal exchange results in the conditioning of the unconditioned air;
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- an air outlet for outputting the conditioned air into the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.